It's small sample size but the Orioles are undefeated since switching from "Orioles Magic" as their take-the-field song to Saliva's "Click Click Boom."
The A's take-the-field music seems to be up to the starting pitcher: Joe Blanton, for example, gets the cheesiest country songs imaginable. (Mark Mulder always warmed up to "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger." That was Mulder's song, and only Mulder's, until he was traded and Barry Zito took it over; since Zito's departure the Daft Punk has lain fallow.)
Every few months I change my mind about what song I'd most want to warm up to as the home team starting pitcher. For awhile I was in a "Shaft" (extended instrumental intro) frame of mind, but now I just wonder if any team would actually be willing to do "YYZ." Oops, I actually mean "The Camera Eye." Getting my Moving Pictures tracks confused in my middle age.
Posted by Matt Bruce at April 7, 2008 11:40 AM